Version 1.0 Changes

Antwort Version 1.0 is a complete rewrite of the code. The change was prompted largely by changes made to the Android Email clients effective with the Android 4.3 release in mid-2013.

Increased Android support

While many of us love our iOS devices, the unfortunate truth is that Android has 80% market share vs. iOS's ca. 15%(source: Business Insider). That being said, it is possible that you have more opens in iOS than in Android or other clients, as per email client market share stats from Litmus. Your numbers may vary drastically depending on your audience.

Despite all these uncertainties, Antwort aims to be as bullet-proof-as-possible, meaning it should be as least broken as possible.

Android suddenly broke

But suddenly in mid-2013 Antwort v0 was very broken on Android devices, example:

Simulating Floats with Tables

A <table align="left"> behaves like a floated element and all email clients support tables. So let's use used multiple aligned tables to be our columns. To make sure Outlook aligns our columns correctly, we need a wrapper table, which we'll serve only to Outlook using the [if mso] conditional:

Bottom Line

How important is the current Android support to you?

At the end of the day, how much "broken" can you tolerate? This will also vary depending on your design. It's possible that the new v1 strategy creates problems in the Android Gmail app, which fudges its own widths into your email.